The United Nations said Friday its investigators have discovered three mass graves at a northeast Congo military camp containing the bodies of 30 people who were allegedly executed by soldiers. The corpses, including women and children, were found at a military camp in Ituri province after witnesses accused troops of killing dozens of people two months ago, U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said. Saiki said the graves had been opened and the bodies would be exhumed for a team of investigators that includes U.N. human rights officials and Congolese military authorities. It was not immediately clear what sparked the killings. Much of Ituri province, home to dozens of powerful local militia groups, has remained lawless and violent despite peace deals to end Congo's 1998-2002 civil war. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in fighting there over the last decade... http://www.foxnews.com

Chipping and putting have joined law and economics as required courses at China's Xiamen University, sparking outrage in a country where golf is still frowned upon as a pastime of the rich. College officials in Xiamen, a southern coastal city, have added golf to some degree programs, saying expertise in the sport will improve students' career prospects. State-run media attacked the decision, leading Peking University in Beijing to drop plans for a driving range on campus. ``Promoting aristocratic sporting activities in universities is a vulgar pursuit of lucre,'' the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper said in an Oct. 16 editorial. With 1 million golfers in China compared with 1,000 a decade ago, the sport symbolizes the struggle to marry communism with the free enterprise system that has created a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs and executives. Just two of the 350 golf courses built since 1984 are open to the public, and expensive private clubs are out of reach for most. ...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aq.648hMmfBo&refer=exclusive

Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab enclave in a largely Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area on Thursday.Two suicide bombers ripped through a Shi'ite market in northern Iraq killing 22 people earlier on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighborhoods, ramping up sectarian tension that threatens to push Iraq into all-out civil war. As political leaders on all sides pleaded for restraint and imposed a curfew on the capital, gunmen stormed a Sunni neighborhood, burning four mosques and homes, an Interior Ministry official said. The official said the number of casualties was not known, but a resident of Hurriya district, Imad al-Din al-Hashemi, said at least 18 people had been killed and 24 wounded. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2676972

Dozens of trained searchers were taking to woods, lakes and air Friday to hunt for two young brothers who disappeared from an American Indian reservation two days earlier.The FBI offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2.The boys were reported missing Wednesday from the Walking Shield area of the remote, heavily wooded Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, the FBI said.Their parents said they had been playing outside their home before they disappeared, Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr. said."They were out there one minute, and (then) they didn't hear them or see them," Jourdain said.FBI spokesman Paul McCabe said it was too soon to tell if the boys wandered away or if a crime had been committed. "At this point, there's nothing to indicate either way," he said....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-24-missing-kids_x.htm?csp=34

Argentina has reportedly accused Uruguay of diverting attention from environmental issues, in a dispute over a pulp mill project near the border. The claim came in a letter from Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to the Uruguayan ambassador, Francisco Bustillo, quoted by Efe news agency. Argentine protesters say the Uruguayan mills will pollute the Uruguay river, and have blocked border bridges. Uruguay has protested, saying the protests are harming its economy. On Tuesday, the World Bank approved more than $500m (£259m) in loans for the project. In his letter, Mr Taiana says that "despite Argentine protests, it is disappointing to find a repeated intention to divert attention from the main issue which started the controversy". ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6179994.stm

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday in the case of a German man who claims the CIA held him captive and tortured him in Afghanistan after mistakenly identifying him as an associate of the Sept. 11 hijackers. Khaled El-Masri wants the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate his lawsuit against former CIA director George Tenet and others. A federal judge in Alexandria dismissed the suit in May, ruling that a trial could expose government secrets and jeopardize national security. Ben Wizner, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing El-Masri, said the workings of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program in the war on terror already are so widely known that the case could be tried without divulging any state secrets. The rendition program, in which terror suspects are captured and taken to foreign countries for interrogation, has been heavily criticized by human rights groups and has been the subject of worldwide newspaper and magazine articles...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231724,00.html